Sapiens AI

Sapiens AI (legal entity Singapore Sapiens Technology Pte. Ltd., incorporated 2022 as "Kiwi Network Technology" and rebranded) is a Singapore consumer-AI startup led by founder Bruce Yang. It launched Agnes AI in April 2025 — an AI agent combining real-time web search with a personal memory engine — and runs a free omni-modal API gateway plus a consumer app suite (the Agnes app, Agnes Code, and the Pavo creative studio).

Its model line is mostly closed: the Agnes text models run 1.5 Flash → 2.0 Flash → 2.5 Flash → the flagship Agnes 2.5 Pro Alpha, alongside closed image and video models. Artificial Analysis scores the Agnes 2.5 Pro Beta checkpoint 35 and Agnes 3.0 Flash 36 on Intelligence Index v4.3 (mid-pack, well below the 53 frontier). The genuinely open research is thin: one open-weight model, Agnes-SeaLLM-8B (a Southeast-Asian fine-tune of Qwen3-8B, Apache-2.0), and one arXiv paper, DSPO (an RL method co-authored by the founder).

Caveat on the company's own claims: Agnes is heavily PR-driven, and several headline figures trace only to its own press releases. Independent reporting confirms only a March 2026 raise of "tens of millions" (amount, valuation, and investors undisclosed) and ~$20M ARR; the frequently-cited ">$100M valuation," multi-million user counts, and "Singapore's answer to DeepSeek" / "top-10 lab" framing are self-reported and have escalated across releases. Primary sources also undercut the "built from scratch" positioning: Google's own case study says the consumer app relies on Gemini Flash for inference, and the open model's card lists Qwen3-8B-Base as its base. A real applied-AI product with a genuine mid-tier model — not a frontier lab.